{"id":718510,"date":"2026-06-06T06:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/718510\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T06:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:58:16","slug":"jen-pawol-umpires-angels-dodgers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/718510\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen Pawol umpires Angels-Dodgers game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pawol-mlb-umpires-spring-training-4ab5c8216eaf0c2eb672559a7d4cd55b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jen Pawol<\/a>, who made history last year as the first woman umpire in the major leagues, was behind the plate for the Angels-Dodgers game on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani greeted her leading off the bottom of the first inning as he customarily does with the umpire in each of his at-bats.<\/p>\n<p>Pawol, 49, umpired during spring training for the third straight year but she did not get one of the permanent staff openings. Instead, she is part of MLB\u2019s call-up list.<\/p>\n<p>She worked her first game of the automated balls and strikes challenge system on April 17 when the Giants visited the Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>She became the first female major league umpire on Aug. 9, 2025, and worked a total of five big league games last season. In 2024, she became the first woman to umpire big league spring training games since Ria Cortesio in 2007. Pawol has been a minor league ump since 2016 and has worked at Triple-A since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Pawol was flirting with potential history early in Friday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Angels starter Reid Detmers tossed three hitless innings before allowing a single to Freddie Freeman in the fourth. <\/p>\n<p>Dodgers starter Roki Sasaki pitched no-hit ball through the first four innings before giving up a double to Nick Madrigal in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>This story has been corrected to show Jen Pawol previously umpired this season.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Jen Pawol, who made history last year as the first woman umpire in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,485,12215,41166,5262,1187,591,6784,214147,251652,41168,5149,85,41167],"class_list":["post-718510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-california","tag-freddie-freeman","tag-jen-pawol","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-nick-madrigal","tag-reid-detmers","tag-ria-cortesio","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-sports-officiating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}